UPDATED: MAY 20, 2011 Batch 199. Murky orange with a small tanned, creamy head. Wooden, fruity malty and hoppy aroma. Sweet, light bitter and acidic with smoke notes, Rounder and less astringent as it heats towards room temperature. Smooth. Medium to full body.
Initial rating date 2010-12-16
Batch 138. Gushes in such a way that the sediments are stirred into the liquid making it murky orange. Finger thick, frothy, cappuccino colored, lasting head. No lacing. Yeasty and wooden aroma with some malty notes coming through and alcohol present. Grows in the mouth and is overwhelmingly carbonated. Alcoholic and bitter with an acidic and dry finish. Full bodied. May be off.
6-3-4-1-8 2.2

This might be a new beer from haandbryggeriet 6.5% "Dette specielle ølet er brygget med en lokal variant vill humle som vokser langs elvebreddene, ikke langt fra bryggeriet. ". This does not match that well with the RB description use of a mix of English hops. Label is green and the words "norwegian IPA at the bottom. I have mailed the brewer and will create a new beer if i get confirmation the recipe is different (different hopping).
Pours clear to hazy orange brown, huge smooth head on first pour, large smooth head on following pours. looks great.
Flowery dry hoppy aroma, pretty strong hoppy arom, american in the level of hop aroma. A litlle exotic fruits. faint malty caramelly note too, but hops are the dominant aroma.
pretty bitter hoppy flavor too, flowers almost gone, dryness, bitterness, something resembling herbal licorice like flavor, faint orange juciy fruits, faint fruit peel bitterness. This is pretty damn tasty and very quenching. the malty balance is a bit lacking, but only because i start comparing this to the mikkeller single hop series.
A very interesting india pale ale and very tasty too. I hope those elvebredde are huge and that there is plenty of hops there. This is pretty good. Brewed may 2010, tasted oct 2010 - at this time it tastes very good and the hop profile is still fresh. Bottle from bunker beer so it has been kept perfectly well since it hit the BB cellar.

Orange beer with medium and blond head. Aroma is fruitfull, excotic fruits, grapefruits, some pine needles and fructose sweetness. Flavour is dryer than aroma, some excotic fruits and overally flavour is quite simple, medium, but rough bitterness. Nice aroma, but flavour is not so good and more freshness would be nice. Good, but not top IPA.

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